Through the Lens of History. Mini Exhibits from the Yad Vashem Collections

Until The Last Jew... Until The Last Name

Children from the children’s home in Izieu, France

Pictured here are children from the children’s home in Izieu, France. On April 6, 1944, Klaus Barbie led the Gestapo in a raid on the home and kidnapped 44 children and their 7 supervisors. The children were sent to Drancy and then put on the first available train to Auschwitz. 42 children and 5 adults were murdered in Auschwitz; 2 children and a supervisor ended up in Tallin in Estonia and were put to death by a firing squad. Only one of the supervisors, Lea Feldblum, survived.